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  • Top 10 things that are more overrated than Bacon

    Top 10 things that are more overrated than Bacon

    We here the chants come during march Madness. The chants as “lesser” teams beat teams they shouldn’t.

    You can hear it in your head can’t you.

    “OVER – RATED (Clap Clap, CLAP CLAP CLAP) Over – RATED”

    But I had a friend who said to me today that “Bacon was overrated.”

    What? Really? In my mind I told him that I could tell him 5 things off the top of my head that were more overrated than Bacon. So he challenged me to name 10.

    Fine. You asked for it.

     My top 10 things that are more overrated than Bacon.

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    #10. Monday Night Football games on cable.

     

    There, I said it. There are some places in the world that don’t have cable / satellite TV. Why should they have to pay to enjoy a tradition that goes back to 1970. Why should my uncle be forced to pay someone to watch a game that he is going to scream and yell at, especially since he is deaf because the closed captions of Jon Gruden are something like – “mumbling something moronic” ?  MNF on ESPN is more overrated than Bacon.

     

     

     

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    #9. Election coverage that starts the day after the LAST ELECTION!

     

    There are a lot of things in this world I enjoy, politics being one of them, but why can’t we all take a time out and just let the last ballots get counted before we look to the next election. Why can’t we just let the morons we just elected screw up before we put them on the block again.

     

     

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    #8. Movie Trailers.

    God Bless you Don La Fontaine, but the “In a world,” we live in our will to go see movies sucked clean dry because of the moronic movie trailers that exist now. Want to see almost every funny line in a comedy movie? Watch the damn trailer. Yeah, there are some lines that they are holding back , but my god, just give me a summary of the movie and don’t blow all the good stuff, because there is nothing more annoying than paying $9 to see a movie that I could have just watched the trailer for.

     

     

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    #7. Black Friday.

    You want overrated? How about Black Friday which has crept into Black Thursday.

     

    There is NO reason I want to go to any store at 3 A.M. in the morning after stuffing my face with enough Tryptophan to kill a small horse. The savings are negligible, I can usually get better deals online and I’m not fighting some moron for a Happy Fun Ball. It is not worth my time, energy or enthusiasm.

     

     

     

    English: DC USA, Target, Black Friday
    English: DC USA, Target, Black Friday (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

     

    #6. Hand Sanitizer.

     

    I see so many people use hand sanitizer instead of washing their hands. I know the bottle says that it kills 99.99% of germs, but that 0.01% is a BITCH. If you would just wash your hands regularly and live your life with a degree of common sense, you wouldn’t need to OD on hand sanitizer. Is it a miracle cure? No.

    WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS!

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    #5. Server Overload.

    We live in a world where technology is getting more complex and cheaper every minute.  My first computer was a Timex Sinclair with 2K of memory and a tape hard drive. Now I am sitting here with 6 Terabytes of information on various hard drives and that is not including the other drives I don’t have plugged in with my 8 megs of memory.

    But as successful as I might think this world has evolved… we still have people who give information on a backbone as advanced as a Timex Sinclair. Come on, upgrade your systems and come to 1995… I won’t ask you to come into the 21st century because it would be too hard for you. But how about if you are going to provide a service, that after you see how badly you are getting killed that you invest in a blade or 20 more.

     

    Timex Sinclair 1000 (TS-1000, the American ver...
    Timex Sinclair 1000 (TS-1000, the American version of the Sinclair ZX81) with rampack attached. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

     

    #4. Justin Bieber

    No picture, no explanation needed. But someone needs to kick this snot nosed brat back into reality because Lindsay Lohan is calling…

    #3. ESPN.

    The World Wide Leader in Sports started pure, with an idea of televising sports everywhere. But today they are the 800 lb gorilla in the room. They dictate terms, keep the bowl system alive because it makes them money. If you would ask an intelligent person what has killed sports and yet made it better in the last 35 years, the answer would be the same.

     

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    #2. Any and I mean ANY commercial for any male enhancement product.

    Yes, I’m sorry you can’t get it up without drugs, but I really don’t want to hear about “When the time is right.” Ask my wife, the time is right only when she says it is, not when I have a boner.  So ask a doctor and leave the rest of us men alone. if we have a problem, we’re not going to discuss it as some water cooler talk, “Hey George, I can’t get it up anymore, do you know of a product that can help me?” My response will be to kick you in the junk and laugh. (Probably not but I don’t want to know about it.)

     

    #1. Any product made past 2000.

     

    I remember when TV’s made would last for decades. If I get one that last for 5 years, I’m celebrating. We are a consumer economy now, we build things not to last, but to amaze us.

    My 1st car I called the boat. It was big , wide, but had enough steel and Detroit love that when I was ran into as a guy left a donut shop crossing 3 active lanes of traffic and into my stopped car at a left turn signal, I got a broken left tail light. His car was totaled.

     

    So here you go Mark, you asked for it. Ten things that are more overrated than Bacon. I could go on and on, but I really am hungry for bacon now.

     

    Also Bacon rocks.

  • Forgotten…

    Forgotten…

    Cascade's Baseball Field at Sunset
    Cascade’s Baseball Field at Sunset (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Recently a local high school football team finally beat a rival for the first time in a long time.

    Words were said, shoving happened and stupid things followed.

    But in the end, it was just a game.

    In our lives we hold sporting events and competitions to such a lofty level that judges have been known to play favorites, officials “cheat” and parents drive their kids where they do not want to play anymore.

    WHY?

    Why is winning so important in the grand scheme of things?

    I’ll be honest with you my friends, I’m not a rich man. I’ve lived hand to mouth my entire life. I have not gotten everything that I wanted, but I grew up with 2 brothers and 3 sisters. My parents worked multiple jobs sometimes to help me in my life. I was in a lower middle class family that handed down clothes to my brothers and did not get the coolest things first. But while my friends always had the hottest clothes, or the best lunches, I had family.

    Yes, because of situations beyond my control, I once brought a macaroni and cheese sandwich to school. I was not cool and moved around too many times to make any life long friends until I settled down in Lubbock for college.

    But I have worked my butt off and one day, the wonderful 2 bedroom, 1 bath house that I have paid every single cent I could earn and more into… will be mine. No one can take away accomplishments that you achieve.

    Only you can take accomplishments and make them meaningless.

    As a kid, I was terrible in sports, I wouldn’t shut up and I did not have anything that I could call a significant sports success. I could tell you about leading the pony league of baseball in walks, strikeouts and being hit by pitch but that delays my point.

    I don’t remember any of the strikeouts today. None of them. I don’t remember the disappointments of my father, if he had any, that I wasn’t going to be a superstar. Because that wasn’t important to me or to my family.

    What was important was making an effort.

    I do remember my brief baseball career the one playoff game where I got hit by a pitch, stole 2nd, stole 3rd and got hit in by one of my friends to win the one and only playoff game in my life.

    If you think that was funny, have you ever heard about a team carry a player off the field after grounding out to short? I have.

    I was the player. My teammates knew I was the worst player, but because I MADE the effort, they recognized how important it was to me to be recognized for my effort.

    As adults we know that a kick to win a game should be celebrated today, remembered in the future but ONLY is a memory.

    Kids are full of emotions and hormones.

    Holding anger in our heart / acting out in frustration has no meaningful consequences. Anger does nothing but keep us from success.

    Teach your kids… it’s just a game and they will move on with their lives win or lose. I’ve lost more times than I have won in my life, but my wins I remember each of them with vivid details.

     

    The losses… have been forgotten.

     

  • Beauty Pageants & the Red Raiders

    Beauty Pageants & the Red Raiders

    I let a day go by after the game, trying to think of the nice way to put it, but it is time to rip the band aid off this season.

    The Red Raiders aren’t that good. Yes, they seem to be good against Little Sisters of the Poor and Miscellaneous State but when it comes to any school from any Power 5 conference, they just aren’t that good.  They are young, undisciplined and have a quarterback who just isn’t Kingsbury, Harrell, Joe Barnes or any of the other leaders that have taken the Red Raiders to greatness.

    The bowl game versus Arizona State was an aberration. The team had a month to study and prepare for a match up. They had a week to prepare for Arkansas, knowing that the Arkansas QB wasn’t good either, but the Razorbacks run game was amazing.  In the end, mental mistakes the team made compounded again into a frustrating day for the Red Raiders. Where was the jumping around, the energy from last year?

    We all love the Red Raiders, it is when they play below all of our expectations when our feelings are worn on our sleeves. Because we love this team, we’ve been there in cold, wet, snow, dust storm games. We’ve cheered for them when they were coached by Spike, Mike, Idiot and Kliff. We just want to see improvements otherwise the $95 ticket prices for games like Saturday will be laughed at in the future.

    To become a champion, you have to cheer, play, coach and have an organization that is dedicated to winning.

    The fans showed up, for as long as they could. When the game got ugly, they left. They left to go talk about things that mattered, not mentioning the embarrassment on the field. “We got dressed up for THAT?” I heard from a fan after the final gun fired.

    The team looked lost, on assignments, on routes, everything. It could have been 63-14 without a couple of lucky bounces.

    Kliff is young and will have to mature and season more for the fans to look past “Hollywood”.

    As long as Texas Tech Football is a beauty pageant for some fans,  coached “Hollywood” style, played at a second tier level with swagger rather than substance and have an organization WILLING to let traditions go, this team won’t EVER be a National Champion.

    It is a matter of attitude and the Red Raiders have the future working for them. They have an incredible facility, great recruits and a good coach, they need some seasoning, experience and LUCK to win.

    Good Luck Red Raiders!

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  • What happens when you suck lemons your entire life?

    What happens when you suck lemons your entire life?

    There are people in this world, some of them in a service industry, that could give a damn about the services that they are performing. They spend their waking hours sucking on a lemon and thinking that the world owes them something.

    Hey Pinhead… the world owes you nothing. You were brought into this world as a result of a carnal act and no one is going to hand you the keys to the city. Bust your ass, do your job and make something of your life.

    Why am I angry?

    Because I go to a place to get the same order, some of the people know me by name and say “Hi, Mr. D,” and I always remind them to call me Sean.

    But today I was greeted by the rudest, angriest, nastiest woman next to an ex girlfriend. She got mad at ME because I called HER out on getting MY order wrong. Now, I am one of the most easiest going guys around, but when I come to your place and expect to get what I ordered when I ask for it, when YOU get it wrong, you shouldn’t suggest that I go somewhere else.

    Because when I leave…

    I leave and I never come back.

    So I’m sorry if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, something in your life sucks or your just a mean hateful bitch, but stop sucking on the lemons and start making some lemonade. Now.